After Gu Xiancheng was reprimanded by his eldest brother like this, he realized that he seemed to have done something disobedient.

This made him feel embarrassed.

You know, he has always prided himself on being a moral gentleman.

As a result, he is now applying for his second brother, and he is applying for his second brother in front of his clansmen.

This simply made him fall into the crime of disobedience and disrespect to his brother in front of his clansmen!

This kind of thing is not a trivial problem in Confucian society.

After all, Confucian society cares more about the order of human ethics, and does not pay so much attention to the profit and loss of interests.

According to the values of Confucian society, Gu Zicheng killed Gu Xiancheng on this ground, and the emperor couldn't blame anything, after all, Gu Xiancheng could indeed be regarded as a crime.

But now, Gu Xiancheng really did it.

What's more, Gu Xiancheng has seriously damaged the interests of the clansmen and villagers this time.

"How can Saburo do this! Don't even listen to your brother's teachings? ”

"Is this Gu Jia Saburo a brotherless?"

"It turns out that it will pit everyone, and it is already wrong to dare to love people!"

Therefore, the clansmen and villagers present also blamed Gu Xiancheng, and many of them also said that they knew Gu Xiancheng in vain, and Bai helped Gu Xiancheng study back then.

This made Gu Xiancheng himself very embarrassed.

Then, he could only kneel in front of Gu Zicheng honestly: "Please punish my brother, my brother is disrespectful for a while, and he should be punished severely!" ”

"That's it!"

"You have been a jinshi and a protégé of the Son of Heaven, how can I talk about you, besides, you also have children and daughters, get up."

Gu Zicheng didn't intend to blame Gu Xiancheng too much.

And Gu Xiancheng said at this time: "Although the elder brother does not care about his younger brother and is friendly and benevolent, but the younger brother cannot but be punished, and the younger brother will go to the ancestral hall to kneel in front of the ancestor for three days for reflection." ”

"Let it be."

Gu Zicheng said.

"Thank you, brother, for making it happen!"

Gu Xiancheng then turned to look at the villagers and said:

"Folks, it is Saburo's fault that he miscalculated and harmed everyone's money; However, the fact that the imperial court Luzon won a great victory with troops is not necessarily true! ”

"Not necessarily true?"

"How is it not true? Obviously, there are official errands everywhere, and the Tang newspaper and the Di newspaper are all published! ”

"yes, and the coupon has indeed gone up!"

At this time, the Gu family members and villagers present all said that it was a matter of their own interests, so they couldn't blame Gu Xiancheng, not to mention that Gu Xiancheng also admitted his mistake.

Gu Xiancheng explained at this time: "Now that the court is a traitorous party, what shameless thing can't the traitor party do?" ”

"So, maybe the traitorous party deliberately spread false news and created a big victory in order to keep the subscription coupons, which has not happened in history, and many times, even the Son of Heaven believes it."

"Even if what you say is true, but Gu Sanlang, how can you let us believe you anymore!"

"Yes, the Son of Heaven is really so stupid, will Shenwu County and Chen Shaozhou and others be deceived?"

The villagers continued to speak.

Gu Xiancheng said: "The Son of Heaven is smart, but isn't Song Huizong smart?" Not to mention this, three days later, I will go to Quanzhou to see in person, if I really see that the army of Luzon is victorious and return to the army, our Gu family will use our own property to compensate for everyone's losses, how about it? ”

"Really?!"

Many clansmen and villagers stood up and looked at Gu Xiancheng.

Gu Xingcheng, Gu Zicheng, Gu Yuncheng and other Gu disciples all stood up at this time and looked at Gu Xiancheng in amazement.

Gu Xiancheng hurriedly looked at Gu Xingcheng and the others and explained: "Brother, I mean, the Gu family will compensate everyone for the assets of the house that they gave me. ”

After hearing this, Gu Xingcheng said, "That's it!" If you want this, you can go! ”

"Okay, then we'll trust you Gu Saburo again!"

Seeing that Gu Xiancheng was willing to support each other, the clansmen and villagers began to leave the Gu family one after another.

After all, the Gu family is one of the richest families in the local area, and there are so many fertile fields that they can't finish a day when they inspect the fields, even if they are losing a lot of money now and selling a lot of family property, but they are also a hundred-legged insect that dies and does not stiffen, so with the Gu family's support, they are naturally relieved.

And after these people left, Gu Xiancheng went to the ancestral hall and knelt in front of the ancestral tablet, his face sinking like water.

Gu Yuncheng didn't come to him long after: "Brother, do you really think that the court is spreading fake news?" ”

"Hopefully."

Gu Xiancheng sighed and replied.

……

Half a month later, in the early autumn of the eighteenth year of Wanli.

Mist shrouded the coastline, and the first Ming warships returning from Luzon arrived in Quanzhou and began to dock, revealing his silhouette and the figure on the deck in the mist.

The shores of the harbor were full of people and horse-drawn carriages.

The people of the Ming Empire have never paid as much attention to the country's major affairs as they did at this moment.

This is naturally because of the effect that Zhu Yijun has produced since he took "benefiting the people" as a program for governing the country.

Because the foreign war of the Ming Dynasty is no longer only for the sustainability of the Zhu family, but for the increase in the interests of the whole people, this war against Luzon is no longer the business of the Zhu family, but the business of people of all walks of life in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Rao is a scholar like Gu Xiancheng who supports the old party, and he also traveled a long way to Quanzhou, wanting to see with his own eyes whether Wang Shi returned victorious or defeated.

The first to disembark was a platoon of soldiers, lined up on the harbor with loaded guns and ammunition, all with resolute faces, but their eyes could not hide their exhaustion.

After all, the expedition was returned, so they couldn't tell whether they were victorious or defeated.

Then the wounded and sick were carried off the ship one after another.

"There are a lot of wounded and sick people, it should not be so easy to fight, could it really be a defeat, the so-called big victory is really a lie?"

Gu Yuncheng, who came to Quanzhou with Gu Xiancheng, said first.

Gu Xiancheng didn't say anything, only his eyebrows stretched out slightly.

Not long after, Deng Zilong was also carried down.

Fujian Governor Ye Mengxiong saw that a general was also carried down here, so he walked over with a group of civil and military personnel from Fujian, and immediately surrendered his hand when he saw that it was Deng Zilong:

"It's really General Deng, Your Majesty has a will to build a memorial arch for General Deng, and let our Fujian officials and people take care of it."

Deng Zilong didn't speak, just waved his hand slightly.

"That should be Deng Zilong, otherwise why would Fuyuan do it himself?"

"This battle really lost the general! Presumably it's really likely to be a defeat, right? ”

Gu Yuncheng said.

Gu Xiancheng said: "Look again!" In any case, Xiyi is white, and their head can't be faked, and it can't be done by killing good people and risking merit. ”

Bang!

And it didn't take long for boxes full of Xiyi's heads to be lifted down and exposed to the scorching sun.

As a result, many people can clearly see that there are those Xiyi white faces and blue eyes that have been treated with lime.

"It's a thief!"

"It's really a thief!"

The people became agitated and began to summon each other.

"A box!"

"Two boxes!"

"Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine...... Oh my God, so many! It's all the first level! ”

Some people began to count, and the more they counted, the more shocked they became.

(End of chapter)